By now, the current release of macOS has had all major bugs fixed or worked around. Isn’t this a good time to upgrade? Some practical advice on deciding and upgrading tips.
Notarization
Where can you see code signatures and notarization tickets, and how can you check them?
Who’s been ghost notarizing other people’s apps, and is Catalina wasting time to check whether shell scripts are notarized?
When you open a four year-old app and discover that someone notarized it in August last year. What’s behind that surprise?
In the clear light of morning, when we’ve literally got out a bit more, we’ll surely realise how distorted our cognition has become.
Remember MacKeeper? Would it surprise you to hear that it has now been notarized? Let me tell you a little about its notorious past.
One of the last of Catalina’s promised features, hardening and notarization become fully mandatory for all new apps from today.
App translocation, signature checks, XProtect and more explained, with key messages from the log to help you diagnose problems.
Using Little Snitch, this becomes unresolvable, as the app can’t complete first run checks, and every time you try, it’s translocated to a different folder, causing Little Snitch to block it again.
What’s the point of impressive Finder illusions when users can’t rely on your explanation of how to erase a disk? Apple’s problems of 2019 considered.
